The Nican Mopua recounts Juan Diego's encounter with ________.
Who is the Virgin Mary/Our Lady of Guadalupe?
The ethical system by which judge the rightness or wrongness of an action according to that action’s results
What is consequentialism?
The system adopted by Spain in their conquest of the New World that placed the natives of the Americas in a vassal-serf relationship with Spaniards
What is the encomienda system?
“Throughout these islands, I observed little diversity in the appearance, customs, or language of the people. They all understand one another, a fact that holds great promise for Their Highnesses’ efforts to convert them to our holy faith, to which they seem very open and willing.”
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Authority, reality, emotion, context
What are rhetorical appeals?
The humanists believed that __________ was the most convincing form of evidence.
What is authority?
A cultural movement in the nineteenth century that was deeply critical of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment's confidence in human reason
What is Romanticism?
The idea of the universe, closest to the one used by Dante, which placed Earth at the center of the cosmos
What is the Geocentric system?
“You say ‘hail,’ but you don’t know why. You recite ‘hail’, but you don’t know why. You beat yourself saying ‘hail’, but you don’t know why. God wants the intention and God takes the intention. Marriage serves no purpose; God takes the intention. Baptism serves no purpose, God takes the intention. Confession serves no purpose, God takes the intention. Prayer serves no purpose, God wants the intention. Good deeds serve no purpose, God wants the intention.”
Who is Dona Beatriz [the false St. Anthony]?
What are levels of stasis?
Machiavelli states in The Prince that human life was divided 50/50 between events that are under our control and events that are dictated by _________.
What is fortune?
The idea that what is primarily real is that which can be seen, tasted, touched, or in some way measured, championed by Francis Bacon
What is empiricism?
A 1493 political event between Rodrigo Borgia and the monarchs of Spain that unwittingly granted Spain ownership of almost half the world
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
“One cause for just war involves forcing submission (as a last resort) from those who by their natural condition should obey other but refuse to. … Even though all these powers are different, they are all based on natural law, which can be reduced to one principle: the more perfect needs to rule the less perfect, and the more excellent need to rule over the less excellent.”
Who is Sepulveda?
Tyranny, oligarchy, anarchy
What are vicious states, according to Machiavelli?
Aristotle and the humanists believed we learned how to be virtuous or vicious in political life via ________.
What is mimesis?
The process when two religions encounter each other and intertwine to the point that they create a new, third religion
What is religious syncretism?
The system that brought processed goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and raw goods from the Americas to Europe
What is the Triangle Trade?
“They extend and abuse the authority of the Bible by making it to decide questions about the natural world rather than questions of faith and by forcing us to completely abandon our senses and our reason because of a few passages in Scripture that might be interpreted in a contradictory way.”
Who is Galileo?
Virtue politics, recovery of the classics, beatitude
What are the goals of humanism?
ANY PLAY CHALLENGE
Complete the rhetorical triangle, right now, in front of everyone.
The fancy term for Galileo's belief that faith and reason are two separate domains of knowledge and only relate to each other in moments of weakness
What is extrinsicism?
The papal document that forbade the enslavement of the natives of the Americas
What is Sublime Deus?
"Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me."
Who is Mary Shelley?
Machiavelli, Las Casas, Mary Shelley
Who are critics of humanism?